Dezire
Dezire is given to both girls and boys: 30 girls and 9 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,581 among girls’ names and #8,422 among boys’, #6,650 among all names counting both); 990 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dezire by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dezire?
#4,581 among girls’ names, 2025
Dezire rose from #5,879 in 2015 to #4,581 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.3 to 18.7 per million.
53 babies in 2011, the peak
Dezire peaked in 2011, when 53 girls were given it, #3,143 among girls’ names. The 39 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,581 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,669 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,158 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,205 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,440 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,287 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,466 | 18.5 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,869 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,218 | 14.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,870 | 22.0 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,879 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,060 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,794 | 16.5 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,797 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,143 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,125 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,204 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,108 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,345 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,810 | 21.0 |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,466 | 23.3 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,415 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,273 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,211 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,964 | 17.8 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,092 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,345 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,808 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,270 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,479 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,962 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,200 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,186 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,240 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,902 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,917 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Dezire a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 990 Americans recorded as Dezire, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Dezire: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dezire, and how old are they?
An estimated 981 Americans named Dezire and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Dezire (584 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 806 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,206 babies since 1880, Dezire is the fourth most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 67 babies (58%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dezire
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dezire and names like it
- Compare Dezire and DeziraeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sDezire peaked in 2011.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dezire since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Dezire.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Dezire alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.